Portable music-stand



y A. EBWES. Por-tableV Music-Stand. No. 224,687.

Patented Feb. 1.7, 1880.

N.PETERS, PROTO-LITHUGHAFNER, WASHINGTON. D, 0.

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UNTE TATES PATENT Ormea.

ALFREDHEWES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

i PORTABLE Music-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,687, dated February 17', `1880.

` Application filed October 4, 1879.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, ALFRED HEWES, of the y city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Music- Stands, of which the following is a sliecification. f One improvement consists in the combination, in a music-stand, of a standard, a washer applied thereto, a socket for supporting a music-holder, and a spring of novel construction formed in the same piece with the said socket, and serving, in conj unctiou with the standard, washer, and socket, to prevent the musicholder from turning accidentally on the standard. Other improvements consist in a peculiar construction of theV music-holder, whereby it is enabled to be folded up very coinpactly, and withal is made very rigid when extended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of a portable music-stand embodying my improvements, showing, in full outline, the means for securing itin position applied to a vertical support, and, in dotted outline, ap-

Fig. 2is afront view thereof, with the music-holder partly collapsed, and Fig. 3 is a front view of the musicholder collapsed.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the giires. i

A A' designate a standard consisting of two parts, A and A', jointed together by a stift' joint, so that they may be adjusted, and, when adjusted, will remain in any desirable relation to each other. rlhe lower part, A, terminates in three fingers. a a and a', two of which, a a, are parallel with each other, and, as here shown,

'formed in the saine piece with said part, and

the other ot'which, a', is connected therewith by two screws, B B', so as to be adjustable toward and from the others, a a.

The screw B is provided with a head that may be easily turned with the hand, passes loosely through the finger a', and screws into the part A of the standard A A', and the other screw, B', is rigidly attached to the finger a?, passes loosely through the part A of the standard A A', and has applied to it, adjacent to said part A, a nut, B2. This nut B2 may act ou the part A of the said standard to force the finger a' away from it, and the screw B may beinanipulated to draw another portion of the finger a toward said standard; and hence, by properly working these devices, the fingers a a a' may be made to clamp and secure the standard firmly to any support capable of being grasped by them.

Any suitable covering, such as tubes of india-rubber, may be applied to the fingers to preclude them from scratching a piece of furniture or other article to which they may be applied.

In full outline, Fig. 1, the fingers are shown as clamped to a vertical support, such as the frame of a piano-forte or' back of a chair, the two parts-A A' of the standard being in line, while in dotted outline these iin gers are shown as clamped to a horizontal support, such as an overhanging table-top or mantel-piece, the two parts A A' of the standard being bent in this instance. p Aside from the purpose just described,the jointing of the standard A A' admits of its upper part being adj usted at any desired angle irrespective of its support.

The part A' of the standard carries at its upper end a socket, G, for the music-holder, consisting, in this instance, of a iiat plate furnished with downwardly-converging side flanges, between which a taper portion of the center slat, D, of the music-holder is grasped and supported, so as to be detachable at will by merely slipping it upward. This socket has its shank O', as here shown, bent into a U shape, formingna spring-beariiig between a shoulder on thestandard below it anda washer held to the standard by a cross-pin above it, and exerts sufiicient friction to prevent the socket and music-holder from swinging round out of position under the iniiuence of a weight ou the music-holder.

Attached to the lower part of the center slat, D, of the music-holder is a base slat, E E', having an outwardly-extending ledge, c, for the support of music, and composed of two sections, E and E', pivoted to the center slat, D, at such points that when swung upward their longitudinal edges will come into proximity with each other.

G G' designate mediate slats arranged some distance above the `base slat, and com- IOO posed of sections pivoted to the center slat, D, and to end slats, H, they being also jointed to form sections G and G between the center and end slats.

I I designate top slats, corresponding in structure with the mediate slats in, respect to heilig' pivoted to the center and end slats. and composed of two sections, I and I. This jointingof the mediate and top rails at each side of the center slat provides for deflecting them so as to adjust the end slats bodily toward or from the center slat, and facilitates the contraction and extension of the musicholder. 1

The end slats are provided at lower ends with hooks d, formed in the same plane therewith, which lock into or over catches c on the bottom slat bya movement in the direction ofits length and the sections l ofthe top slats, I I', are provided with hooks f beyond their joints for engaging with eyes or recesses g in the sections I, whereby the said sections are locked rigidly, and, in connection with the hooks and catches d e on the end and bottom slats, impart a rigidity to the entire music-holder.

To collapse the music-holder the llooksf are sprung out of the eyes g, the hooks d are disengaged from the catches c, and the top and mediate slats are deflected between the center and end slats, and the latter' then moved toward the center slat, whereupon th'e sections of the bottom slat are folded or swung upward, and its ledges inclose the other slats within them. The standard A A may, ii' desired, be laid between the ledges also.

It will be seen that by my invention I produce a very simple and efficient portable musicstand, whichV can be packed in a very small space for transportation.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a music-stand, the combination of a standard, a washer applied thereto, a socket V for supporting a music-holder, and a U-shaped sprin g formed in the same piece with the socket, and acting, in conjunction with said standard, washer, and socket, to keep the latter from turning accidentally on the standard, substantially as speciied.

2. In a music-holder, the combination of a center slat, a base slat composed of two sections pivoted to the center slat so that theyr ALFRED HEwEs.v

Witnesses BENJ. B. DALE, EDWIN HBROWN. 

